Best Tent Camping: New England


Book Description

The Best in Tent Camping: New England is a guidebook for tent campers who like quiet, scenic, and serene campsites. It's the perfect resource if you blanch at the thought of pitching a tent on a concrete slab, trying to sleep through the blare of another camper's boombox, or waking to find your tent surrounded by a convoy of RVs. Painstakingly selected from hundreds of campgrounds, this book guides you to the quietest, most beautiful, most secure, and best-managed campgrounds in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. Each campground profile provides essential details on facilities, reservations, fees, and restrictions, as well as an accurate, easy-to-read map making the campground a snap to locate. Rich with history, natural beauty, and environmental diversity, New England offers campers a new experience at every turn. From the tidal marsh of Long Island Sound, to Vermont's world-famous forests, to the rocky shores of Maine, New England camping has never been better.




Best Tent Camping: Ohio


Book Description

Best Tent Camping: Ohio reveals 50 sites around the Buckeye State that will excite avid tent campers. Ohio's geographical diversity provides a variety of tent camping opportunities to quench any tent camper's thirst for off the beaten path adventures. The author guides readers to the site and shares important and informative details of the area to complete a tent camping excursion to be pleasantly remembered. Each campsite and its amenities, surroundings, and things to see and do nearby were thoroughly researched onsite and the results are displayed with supporting site maps. Site characteristics such as shade availability and levelness, to distance to next site and the view are included. If quality fishing is nearby, then that is touched on as well. If a hiking trail with a must-see view is accessible, then directions to the trailhead are supplied. Seasonal tent camping is year round in Ohio, with an abundance of excitement waiting the tent camper. Each campsite description includes recommendations for the best season to visit and why. Ohioan and award winning outdoor travel writer Robert Loewendick has gathered the most current information to guide you to that perfect tent camping excursion you've been longing for. With Best in Tent Camping: Ohio in your pack, picking the right spot and season is easy and enjoyable.




Best Tent Camping: Oregon


Book Description

The guide to the top 50 tent campsites in Oregon. The new, full-color edition of Best Tent Camping: Oregon by Becky Ohlsen guides campers to the state's quietest and most scenic campsites. It's the perfect resource for those who blanch at the thought of pitching a tent on a concrete slab, trying to sleep through the blare of another camper's boom box, or waking up to find your tent surrounded by RVs. The book contains detailed campground layout maps; key information such as fees, restrictions, and dates of operation; and candid ratings for beauty, privacy, quiet, security, spaciousness, and cleanliness.




The Survival Handbook


Book Description

Survive anything life throws at you with the ultimate visual guide to camping, wilderness, and outdoor survival skills. Written by Colin Towell, an ex-SAS Combat Survival Instructor, The Survival Handbook is bursting with survival tips, manual skills, camping essentials, and advice on how to survive whatever the great outdoors throws at you. Combining proven, no-nonsense military survival skills with ingenious bushcraft techniques, specially commissioned illustrations and accessible step-by-step instructions show you how to survive in the wild. Learn how to read a map, how to light a fire, and how to build a raft, and everything you need to know about wild foods and natural dangers. Revel in inspirational real-life survival stories and be prepared for every outdoor situation. From survival basics, such as finding water and catching fish, to extreme situations including being adrift at sea or lost in the jungle, The Survival Handbook will steer you through life's toughest adventures in the world's harshest climates.




Moon Utah Camping


Book Description

Outdoor photographer Mike Matson uses his experience as a Salt Lake City local to capture the adventures of camping in Utah, from remote sites where dinosaur bones lie half-unearthed to the "promised land" of Zion National Park. Matson is a relentless tour guide, covering every known campsite in Utah with itineraries such as Best Alpine Camping, Best Desert Camping, Best Off-Season Camping, and Best Romantic Camping. Moon Utah Camping is packed with information on national forests and parks, recreation areas, Native American land and backcountry sites. Complete with details on what to pack, what to wear, reservations and fees, and the best camping facilities, Moon Utah Camping gives travelers the tools they need to create a more personal and memorable camping experience.




Arizona Highways Camping Guide


Book Description

Our new camping guide covers 100 of the best campgrounds in Arizona, from quiet, isolated high-mountain sites to lower desert locations accessible by all vehicles. Designed for carcampers and especially for families the book is written by an experienced travel editor with comprehensive knowledge of the state. The guide is organized by regions of the state for convenient selection of destinations both near and far. The text is simply prepared, yet comprehensive with all the basics required for exploring and enjoying much of Arizona. Color photographs are included of many campgrounds and surrounding areas. Additional information for each campground: contacts, fees, amenities and reservations.




Complete Guide to Winter Camping


Book Description

"A guide to enjoying winter camping in warmth and comfort. Complete guide to winter camping offers advice on selecting a four-season tent and constructing other types of shelter, maintaining personal hygiene and cooking the cold, choosing a sleep system and getting the right warm clothing to properly enjoy winter"--Back cover.




The Best Tent Camping Guide


Book Description

Do you enjoy tent camping, but every trip you seem to be missing a critical piece to your gear? Are you a tent camper that goes as often as you can in the summer months, but want to expand how early or late in the year that you go? Are you a novice tent camper that just doesn't know where to begin? In The Best Tent Camping Guide, you will find help for all of these situations, plus a lot more!Outdoor enthusiast and four-decade camper Darren Kirby has put together a guide that will help you to streamline your camping so that you can avoid the hassles and get to what's important: enjoying the great outdoors! In this book you'll discover:+ The dos and don'ts of choosing the right tent+ How you can seriously overspend on gear – and how to avoid it!+ How to pick the best campsite in any campground+ How to care for your gear to make it last for yearsNo matter where you are in your tent camping career, you'll find useful information. This is a no-frills book that puts you in control of having the best tent camping experience, time after time.~~~~~“The Best Tent Camping Guide” is a must have for anyone looking to enter the exciting world of camping and outdoor recreation. Finally, answers to all those important questions can be found in one, easy to read, easy to understand guide. From selecting a tent, to building a camp kitchen, this book will help you navigate through the process and get you on your way, even on a limited budget.Skip Huber, Host/Executive Producer, "Happy Camper Radio"A good basic primer for folks who are new to tent-camping. [It] details basic but important things that newbies seldom consider...an easy read.Cliff Jacobson, Author of "Camping's Top Secrets" and "Canoeing and Camping: Beyond the Basics"




The Best Tent Camping Guide


Book Description

Do you enjoy tent camping, but every trip you seem to be missing a critical piece to your gear? Are you a tent camper that goes as often as you can in the summer months, but want to expand how early or late in the year that you go? Are you a novice tent camper that just doesn't know where to begin? In The Best Tent Camping Guide, you will find help for all of these situations, plus a lot more! Outdoor enthusiast and four-decade camper Darren Kirby has put together a guide that will help you to streamline your camping so that you can avoid the hassles and get to what's important: enjoying the great outdoors! In this book you'll discover: + The dos and don'ts of choosing the right tent + How you can seriously overspend on gear - and how to avoid it! + How to pick the best campsite in any campground + How to care for your gear to make it last for years No matter where you are in your tent camping career, you'll find useful information. This is a no-frills book that puts you in control of having the best tent camping experience, time after time. ~~~~~ "The Best Tent Camping Guide" is a must have for anyone looking to enter the exciting world of camping and outdoor recreation. Finally, answers to all those important questions can be found in one, easy to read, easy to understand guide. From selecting a tent, to building a camp kitchen, this book will help you navigate through the process and get you on your way, even on a limited budget. Skip Huber, Host/Executive Producer, "Happy Camper Radio" A good basic primer for folks who are new to tent-camping. [It] details basic but important things that newbies seldom consider...an easy read. Cliff Jacobson, Author of "Camping's Top Secrets" and "Canoeing and Camping: Beyond the Basics"




The Best in Tent Camping: The Carolinas


Book Description

Written to steer campers away from concrete slabs and convoys of RVs, The Best in Tent Camping: The Carolinas is the only guide for tent camping in the state. Pointing tent campers to the most scenic and serene campsites in the Palmetto and Tar Heel States, this latest edition has a campground to suit nearly every camper's taste. In North Carolina, experience the rare spruce-fir forest of Balsam Mountain Campground or the sand dunes of Frisco Campground. Visit Cherry Hill, South Carolina's finest upcountry campground, or pitch a tent by the Atlantic Ocean in Hunting Island State Park. Travelers will find essential information about each campground (including season, facilities, rates, directions, GPS coordinates, and websites), as well as a description of the campground, the best sites, and nearby activities such as hiking, canoeing, fishing, and mountain biking.